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Marshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art.

Considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history, examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the "bottom up" - in geopolitics and art.

Providing close readings and imaginative analyses of the entire literary output of one of twentieth-century France's most important Jewish writers, Abecassis presents here a major work of literary scholarship, as well as a broader study of the reception and influence of Jewish thought in French literature and philosophy.

Treating the subject of early modern national expression from a broad comparative perspective, The Site of Petrarchism will be of interest to scholars of late medieval and early modern literature in Europe, historians of culture, and critical theorists.

This text argues that some of romanticism's most daring innovations owe their form and substance to the subject of chemistry. Focusing on the work of Friedrich Schlegel, it demonstrates the degree to which romantic poetics, in its language and concepts, relies on the chemistry of its day.

Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.

While traditional scholarship emphasizes the influence of newspapers and books on the French Revolution, Maslan's erudite analysis reveals the rich and powerful impact of theater on France's fledgling democracy.

Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-textof hypertext studies.